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A Slightly More Philosophical Musing I have a reflection mostly written, but not yet ready, on Why I am a Christian. I’ll finish it one of these days. For several days this week, I am going to provide posts that are more philosophical in nature. I hope they will be helpful. I want to address […]

In fact, this is what I FIRST believed in the fall of 1974. I sat in a lecture at Clarion State College. I was listening to Josh McDowell, traveling apologist for Cru.* (A much older Josh is pictured to the right.) I was a skeptic. Not a hostile skeptic, but a jaded one. It is […]

Despite the standard secular mantra that all religions are the same and teach the same thing, nothing could be further from the truth. All religions do have things in common, like a belief in God, praying to God, holy writings that tell the followers about God, and practices of worship. But every religion has […]

A final reason why many choose not to believe in God. The first three reasons were: The problem of suffering. Bad religion that has hurt people. Misconceptions about the conflict of science and Christianity. The fourth reason is going to be a little touchy, so I will just put it out there and give a […]

In my last blog post, the first two reasons given for not believing in God were the problem of suffering and “bad” religion. There are two more reasons that shape the minds and hearts of many people about faith. I will talk about the third reason today. Three: The theory of materialism, (or) secularism, (or) […]

Do you know what a straw man argument is? It is when you set out an opposing position in such a way that it is easy to dismantle that position. We can’t do that with unbelief. We must take with great seriousness and intellectual rigor the reasons people choose not to believe. There are four […]

I enjoy having discussions and conversations about Christianity, world religions, faith and doubt, and reasons to believe (or not to believe). When you seek to provide meaningful reasons to believe, you are doing what is called apologetics. When you then help a person work through his or her own response to Christ, you are doing […]